Royal African Pearl

The Royal African Pearl was a slave ship owned and operated by the Royal African Company under the Spanish flag during the early 18th century. Captain Morgan Treglone ordered for his men to wear Spanish uniforms, to paint the ship in Spanish colors, and to fly the Spanish flag in order to conceal the ship from the Spanish Navy, which had been preying on British shipping during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1715-1722. On 23 November 1718, the pirates Edward Kenway and Charles Vane seized the ship off Isla Providencia during Kenway's search for the slave ship Princess and its crew member Bartholomew Roberts; Vane poured all of the fire of the Princess onto the Royal African Pearl, threatening the lives of the slaves aboard the ship. Vane executed Captain Treglone after he revealed that the Princess left Kingston, Jamaica every few months, and the ship was left crippled after the pirates left.